People always say that the common folk in the Imperial City have the biggest mouths and love to gossip the most, but honestly, you can't really blame them. Mainly, it's because there's never a shortage of spectacles happening in the Imperial City. From the start of the year to the end, year after year, every day there's something lively to see, something to chatter about.
Not long ago, didn't a bigwig from the Ministry of War just get his whole household raided? The Three Barbarian Races—overnight, that prominent household was left deserted, as if they'd never existed at all; nobody knows where they went or where they died… Secretly executed by the Xuanqing Guard? I wouldn't dare say, wouldn't dare ask…
